Lentil Soup & More Healthy Recipes for Lentils Lentils are a versatile, budget-friendly and healthy addition to many dinner recipes. A half-cup of cooked lentils contains over 9 grams of protein and a jaw-dropping 8 grams of dietary fiber. Lentils are also a good source of iron and an excellent source of folate. Eat Well with Janel Lemon Pepper Pasta Primavera We juuuuuust about hit 60 degrees here recently (wahoo!) so dare I say spring is here? Homemade Butter Making butter at home is surprisingly easy to do. All you need is fresh heavy cream—and maybe a little salt, if you want salted butter. That’s it. (No, really: That’s it.)
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Step 1: Read Lesson Your body weight set point is the number on the scale your weight normally hovers around, give or take a few pounds. What determines your set point? Executive Summary: Eat your fruits and vegetables! EWG's 2013 Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce™ Eat fruits and vegetables! The health benefits of a diet rich in fruits and vegetables outweigh the risks of pesticide exposure. Use EWG's Shopper's Guide to Pesticides™ to reduce your exposures as much as possible, but eating conventionally-grown produce is far better than not eating fruits and vegetables at all. The Shopper's Guide to Pesticides in Produce™ will help you determine which fruits and vegetables have the most pesticide residues and are the most important to buy organic.
Healthy Eats - Food Network's Healthy Eating Blog How to Build a Healthier Pasta Salad by Toby Amidor in Healthy Tips, May 28, 2015 One of the most-popular sides during barbecue season is pasta salad. Gobs of mayo or glugs of oils, however, can turn those options into about 400 calories and 500 calories per one-quarter cup, respectively, easily sabotaging any pasta salad. Here are five simple steps you can follow to make a perfectly healthy pasta salad. Homemade Spicy Mustard I don’t know why it’s never occurred to me, before now, to try making mustard. A friend of mine suggested that we make some homemade mustard for a recent dinner party, and boy, am I glad we did! As it turns out, mustard is surprisingly easy to make. In fact, it’s pretty difficult to mess it up!
SUPERFOODS Lesson You’ve probably watched the SUPERBOWL on television, heard stories about SUPER HEROES with SUPER POWERS like SUPERMAN, but have you ever eaten SUPERFOODS? This lesson and activities exposes students to very common SUPERFOODS, explores why they are so important for us to incorporate into our daily diet and uses a comic strip project to encourage others to eat them as well. Class Time: 4-5 periods (43 minutes)